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Mr. Speaker. under leave to extend my remarks in the RECORD. I include the following from Human Events. issue of March 31. 1954: STAssEN RIDEs AGAIN Recently a big plane zoomed Into the Washington Airport from Europe carrying some 50 persons represented as coming into the country under the administration law passed last year to admit 209.000 more immigrants. Harold Stassen. Director. Foreign A2625 Operations Administration. was on hand to kiss the babies and give the big glad hand to the newcomers. The plane had been booked for New York. but was detoured to Washington at extra expense to the taxpayers. for official Washington wished to stage a propaganda show which would presumably stir up friendly political sentiment among minority nationalities. Actually. the whole show was a phony because the persons in the plane were not refugees admitted under the Eisenhowersponsored immigration law. but were regular immigrants admitted under a special provision of the old Displaced Persons Act of the Truman administration which runs to June of this year. Though the Eisenhower law has been in operation some 9 months. only a handful of genuine refugees from Europe have come in under it. There are several reasons for this: (1) Certain courageous officials of the State Department have insisted on a thoroughgoing application of the McCarranWalter Immigration law. which prohibits admission of Communists and criminals. It is reported that these officials uncovered three immigration rings trying to slip into the Nation many Communists and criminals under the Eisenhower law and stopped them cold. (2) The Eisenhower law provides that every refugee must have both a job and a place to live before being admitted. The growth of unemployment has thus automatically shut out refugees. Robert E. Peary and the Discovery of the North Pole